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...wanted to stand on my rooftop and read out Amanda Ripley's "Please Remain Standing" with a bullhorn [Jan. 11]. Not only is our climate of victimization mocked by our enemies, it gives our government justification for spending more and gives us another reason to feel powerless. Terrorists perceive and want to exploit us as soft, arrogant, self-righteous targets. Ripley's article shows us how, despite heroism by the likes of Jasper Schuringa, our government is still happy to oblige them. When did being proactive become so politically incorrect...
...such a risky test is bound to raise a lot of questions. Security experts say they are perplexed as to why the Slovakian authorities would attempt this kind of experiment using real explosives - and a real passenger. "I've never heard of an incident like this before," says Tim Ripley, a British security expert who writes books about defense issues. "It's very unusual for a civilian to be used unwittingly in these kinds of tests. Normally an airport would use its own staff for tests. So to hide explosives in someone's bag and just hope for the best...
...increased scrutiny of airport security measures after the attempted bombing of the flight over Detroit last month, could more of us become guinea pigs for airport security staff? "If your security regime is entirely transparent, then you're almost inviting people to try and get around it," says Ripley. "Unpredictability can be a useful tool, but in this case, I think enthusiasm got in the way of professionalism...
...Panicky) Spirit of '76 In her article on swine flu, Amanda Ripley ignores the U.S. government's ambitious campaign to vaccinate the country against swine flu during the 1976 scare [Oct. 5]. This debacle resulted in decades of study on the wisdom of mass-vaccination campaigns and the ultimatum from swine-flu-vaccine makers - agreed to by the U.S. government in June - that they must be granted immunity from lawsuits. The 1976 campaign saw expensive lawsuits against the government from the families of the 25 people who died and the 500 or so who were partly paralyzed by Guillain-Barr...
...Ripley, a TIME contributor, is the author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes...